For more than a decade, every January, thousands of New Yorkers have taken a high-stakes test, meeting one-on-one with a proctor for roughly an hour. These aren’t medical students or even high ...

A major lawsuit against racial inequality in New York City’s public schools is moving forward. Already, local districts in the city were trying different measures to diversify schools. By Troy Closson ...

Across classrooms and kitchen tables, adults still talk about “gifted” children as if brilliance were a fragile heirloom that ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, 3 miles and a world apart. In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in ...

The air conditioner droned in a windowless room at Chapel Hill Middle School, where a girl sat alone and bored in the back corner while a boy and girl near her gabbed about their families. Among the ...

Gifted elementary school students have a new option for class in Ahwatukee Foothills starting this fall: a self-contained gifted program. Ahwatukee's Kyrene Monte Vista will be one of two Kyrene ...

School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3 million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, ...

Inside the walls of Kearney Middle School's art room, is a space where students like 12-year-old Brayan Isai can shape their imagination. "It's insane because we get to do stuff, harder or [more fun] ...

Some scholars are joining parent advocates in questioning whether the education law No Child Left Behind, with its goal of universal academic proficiency, has had the unintended consequence of ...